18-511: EHC may refer to: Eastern Harbour Crossing , a transport tunnel in Hong Kong EHC Hoensbroek , a Dutch football club The Electric Hellfire Club , an American industrial metal band Encompass Health , an American healthcare provider Environmental Health Criteria (WHO) Everybody Hates Chris , a television sitcom which ran from 2005 to 2009. Topics referred to by
36-536: A deal made in the 2000 when the MTR Corporation was undergoing its partial privatisation process. On 7 August 2016, the 30-year franchisee for the road tunnel expired and the ownership was transferred to the government. The Eastern Harbour Crossing Ordinance was repealed alongside the franchisee's expiry and is instead replaced by the Road Tunnels (Government) Ordinance as the tunnel is now owned by
54-487: A half years of operation, the operator had recouped the construction costs. In 1984, the Hong Kong Government introduced a tax in addition to the operator's toll to make the overcrowded tunnel less priced. The price for a car transit was now HK$ 10. In 1993, an electronic toll collection system was installed. Together with measures to control the flow of traffic, the vehicle capacity could be increased. It
72-463: A reclaimed site on the western side of Hung Hom Bay , Kowloon , off then Hong Kong Technical College . The toll plaza is located at the Hung Hom end of the tunnel, and has 14 toll booths. It provides the first road link and the first link for land transport between Kowloon and Hong Kong Island. Prior to the opening of the tunnel, cross-harbour vehicular traffic depended on ferries and for passengers,
90-460: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Eastern Harbour Crossing The Eastern Harbour Crossing ( Chinese : 東區海底隧道 ), abbreviated as "EHC" ( Chinese : 東隧 ), is a combined road-rail tunnel that crosses beneath Victoria Harbour in Hong Kong . Opened on 21 September 1989, it is the second harbour-crossing tunnel built and
108-566: The Star Ferry . The project was joint-engineered by Scott Wilson Kirkpatrick & Partners and Freeman Fox & Partners . Construction began in September 1969 and was to last four years. The concession period ran from the start of construction, and the operator accordingly completed the construction one year faster than planned. On 2 August 1972, the tunnel was opened for traffic, charging HK$ 5 per car crossing. After just three and
126-464: The already congested Cross-Harbour Tunnel . Cross-Harbour Tunnel The Cross-Harbour Tunnel (abbreviated CHT or XHT ) is the first tunnel in Hong Kong built underwater. It consists of two steel road tunnels each with two lanes constructed using the single shell immersed tube method. It is the earliest of three vehicular harbour crossings in Hong Kong , opened for traffic in 1972. It
144-464: The bidding for this contract, and was given the right to run the road tunnel on a 30-year franchisee, and the train tunnel on an 18-years-and-6 months franchisee counting from the first rail operating date. Construction started on 25 September 1986, and was commissioned on 21 September 1989, four months earlier than the original planned finishing date. The first person to cross the tunnel was the then- Governor of Hong Kong Sir David Wilson . The tunnel
162-752: The government. Pacific Infrastructure Limited was granted a new contract to continue operating the tunnel. On 27 August 2023, the HKeToll was implemented for the Eastern Harbour Crossing. The toll plaza on the Kowloon side was subsequently demolished gradually. The tunnel consists of two components, the road part and the rail part: The Eastern Harbour Crossing is the second most-used tunnel in Hong Kong. Tolls are collected by HKeToll in both directions on both sides. (4am) As of 2018 , there are 46 bus routes passing through
180-591: The implementation of the tunnel project; Financing and construction was the responsibility of a private enterprise, which was granted a concession to operate and collect tolls for 30 years. The concession was given to the then Cross-Harbour Tunnel Company Limited ( Chinese : 香港隧道有限公司 ), today the Cross-Harbour Holdings Limited ( 港通控股有限公司 ), which was founded in 1965 to carry out the tunnel project. The Hong Kong government participated to 20% in order not to fully hand over their influence on
198-614: The longest amongst the three. It connects Quarry Bay on Hong Kong Island and Cha Kwo Ling in Kowloon East . Initially, the Government of Hong Kong had plans to build a bridge across the eastern portion of the harbour but due to fears of the bridge blocking planes landing at Kai Tak airport , this was shelved in favour of a tunnel. In 1986, the New Hong Kong Tunnel Company Limited won
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#1732793834720216-523: The project. The tunnel was designed with two lanes for each direction of travel for a capacity of 80,000 vehicles. The project was structurally managed jointly by the British engineering firms Scott Wilson Kirkpatrick & Partners and Freeman Fox & Partners. The tunnel links the main financial and commercial districts on both sides of Victoria Harbour , connecting Kellett Island (a former island now connected to Hong Kong Island by reclamation ), with
234-403: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title EHC . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=EHC&oldid=1076058498 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
252-401: The tunnel. In June 2005, CITIC decided to raise the toll for using Eastern Harbour Crossing from HK$ 15 to HK$ 25 for private vehicles and up to 67% for other classes of vehicles, under the fare adjustment mechanism derived from the build-operate-transfer (BOT) model. This increase aroused criticisms that the model was detrimental to the public interest, with the increase shifting more traffic to
270-530: The tunnel. In November 2019, Hong Kong protesters set roadblocks across the northern tunnel entrance and set fire to tollbooths, as many roads around the Polytechnic University were blocked, leading to the closure of the tunnel for a dozen of days. The tunnel generates approximately HK$ 700 million in annual toll revenue. In 2023, manual toll collectors have been phased out with HKeToll , an electronic toll collection service introduced by
288-556: Was administered by The Cross-Harbour Tunnel Company Ltd until August 1999, when the operation franchise agreement expired and the government assumed control. From 1 November 2010, the tunnel was managed, operated and maintained by Serco on a contract basis. The tunnel was then operated by Chun Wo Tunnel Management Limited, which was awarded a contract lasting from 2016 to 2022. On 1 November 2022, Serco took over from Chun Wo Tunnel Management Limited. The 2017 Hong Kong action film Shock Wave , starring Andy Lau , set its main plot in
306-415: Was constructed under a 30-year private-sector franchise based on a build–operate–transfer model, and the title passed to the Hong Kong government in 1999 upon termination of the franchise. It has become one of the most congested roads in Hong Kong and the world, with 116,753 vehicles passing through it daily in 2013. The Hong Kong government used the operator model "Build Operate Transfer", or "BOT", for
324-492: Was officially opened by the then Prince of Wales Charles on the 8 November of the same year during his and Princess of Wales Diana 's Royal Tour to Hong Kong . In February 2008, the 18-and-6 months franchisse for the train tunnel expired and was transferred to the government. The government continued leasing the tunnel to the MTR Corporation until 2013, when it was acquired by the MTR Corporation for only HK$ 1,000,
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